This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.

Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” (1936). I don’t member how old I was when I first saw it, but the anxious stare, the clinging children - it immediately humanized the tragedy of the dust bowl and made clear who pays the cost of environmental catastrophes.

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Timeline cleanse: American pikas calling to each other in the Canadian Rockies. Sound on to hear the loud “MEEP!” made by these potato sized alpine mammals. They’re way off under those cliffs but the calls travel. *this is likely a niche post, but it’s one of my favorite sounds in the world.

Seattle really hitting it out of the park with the watch parties.

My cousin in Tromsø, Norway, sent me this video of the world's northernmost city doing the viking row yesterday under the midnight sun. 🇳🇴

Trump is preparing to fire the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, one of America's most prestigious scientific and historical research and education organizations. He wants in particular to censor the Smithonian's American History exhibits:

Extreme heat canceling July 4 plans in the East, extreme wildfire risk canceling July 4 plans in the West. Quote of the day: “There are so many more ways to celebrate community than fireworks…That has been what is our biggest takeaway.” Gift link.

If you’re looking for a positive way to give back in community tomorrow, @surfrider.org is organizing beach cleanups across the country to pick up fireworks debris before it winds up in our lakes, rivers and oceans. hubs.la/Q04m1XX80

“‘There’s an opportunity for us to set a new standard, to show America that we can restore, as humans, a watershed that’s been degraded for the last 100-plus years.’ He’s proud that tribal nations are leading the effort.” Great @btoastie.bsky.social story on Tribes returning salmon to the Klamath.

In addition to producing hazardous air pollution and endangering pets and wildlife, fireworks make the 4th of July the most common day for human-started wildfires in the US. The West is a tinderbox - maybe it’s time to consider alternatives without catastrophic consequences.

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Love wildlife friendly infrastructure like this, not least because there's often cute videos of different animal species simultaneously crossing. But while writing about wildlife crossings in the US/Mexico border wall, I've been convinced that human and animal migration are interconnected issues. 1/

How old were you when you learned that many populations of animals are cut off from one another and from suitable habitats by our highways? I remember feeling very stupid when I learned this in my twenties; I've since found out it's one of those blindingly obvious facts that many people don't know.

This is what it looks like to take wildlife collisions seriously. There are >40 wildlife overpasses and underpasses with fencing along the Trans-Canada Highway near Banff, Alberta. They’ve reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by 80%, saving human & animal lives while promoting connected ecosystems.

Wildfire smoke reminding us climate change and its impacts don’t stop at political borders - our responses shouldn’t, either.

Another great org local to Seattle is The Lambert House: www.lamberthouse.org

Today is a good day to donate to The Trevor Project. Trans kids deserve a world that loves and accepts them fully and unconditionally, just as they are.

This has nothing to do with protecting girls sports and everything to do with scapegoating and harming trans kids. Despicable.

Timeline cleanse: Lake Louise (Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada) — spectacular even in the rain. *yes, the water really is this color; no filter required.

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I was pleasantly surprised the other day when a contractor friend in a red county said that heat pumps are now simply the industry standard. Apparently they’ve outsold gas furnaces in the US for the past four years and are poised to overtake conventional AC. That’s really good news.

It was so hot inside our old Seattle house during the heat dome that we slept outside, underneath towels we'd soaked and then frozen in the freezer. I'll never forget the incredible relief of waking up in the middle of the night to the cool breeze that broke the heat.

Heat-related deaths are also often undercounted, e.g., analysis of excess deaths during the 2021 PNW heat wave suggests three times more people were killed than were officially reported. Heat is so dangerous.

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

It’s five years this week since the PNW heat wave killed hundreds, wreaked havoc on ecosystems, and left Lytton BC in ashes after hitting 49.6 °C / 121.3 °F. As adaptation and mitigation lag, loss and damage - the things climate change takes from us that we can’t get back - will continue to grow.

Great opportunity for climate adaptation folks!

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Important work. My hot take on this is it's yet another example of why a strong functioning state that funds research by taxing companies is so important for our world. It's far from perfect but it's certainly better than individual companies giving large direct donations for research.

Well this was news to me - there is now a heat pump window unit!

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BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

only baltimore's largest employer higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties; destroying universities is economic sabotage

I will say that the thing that finally got us to install air conditioning here in (until recently) largely AC-free Seattle was smoke: being unable to safely open your windows to cool your house is something else entirely, and this sort of compounding risk will become more common.

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Your regular reminder that access to air conditioning in a warming world is not a moral failing but a moral imperative. Climate action is fundamentally about SAVING LIVES. And we can reduce its impact via renewables, efficiency (eg, heat pumps), and other adaptation (shade, green/cool roofs, etc).

One of the more challenging aspects of climate change, which contributes to its urgency: it becomes more difficult to solve as it proceeds. It's hard to address something that's actively disrupting the people and processes (and infrastructure and ecosystems) needed to address it.

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Kids schools closing at lunchtime rest of this week due to global heating. RIP my work

I just passed an old gas station that had been converted to a private home and had billowing roses and dahlias growing where the pumps had been pulled out. Adding this to my mental vision board for a decarbonized future.

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

This is so lovely. Just had to get rid of the cars and add a little World Cup.

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This is such good news. Pushing back works.

Literal gaslighting.